kmod-nvidia not working in kernel-2.6.17-1.2139_FC5

[Deepak Shrestha]

Thanks, it successfully removed the kmod-nvidia. There is no difference in
nvidia driver installed and not installled. Only display is shifted a bit. X
is working nice.

Thanks again!

On 7/4/06, Deepak Shrestha <d88pak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks, I will give it a try.
>
> On 7/4/06, Scott R. Godin <scott.g at mhg2.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 22:43 +0800, Deepak Shrestha wrote:
> > I think my problem is not going to solve right away and I can live
> > without nvidia acceleration for now. By the way how can i safely
> > remove kmod-nvidia for now? Will "yum remove kmod-nvidia" will do? I
> > am asking this becasue I have upgraded the kernel ( to 2.6.17) and
> > removed my old kernel (2.6.15) already. So i don't know if I try to
> > remove this kmod-nvidia, I might end up without X or something like
> > that??? because I saw during kmod-nvidia, it changed several settings
> > of X.org configs.
> >
> >
> [massive snip including previous sig and pgp keys]
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> run (sudo yum remove kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia)
>
> then, edit and set /etc/inittab so that you boot to runlevel 3
> temporarily, and then reboot.
>
> it *should* set /etc/X11/xorg.conf back to original settings (it
> preserves the original); you can double check this by looking in the
> driver section. You should see the driver section show as "nv" instead
> of "nvidia".
>
> [Worst case scenario, you can trash the xorg.conf and re-run
> system-config-display, but save that for extreme desperate measures.]
>
> you can then run (startx) from your user account to test things. if all
> works well, re-edit /etc/inittab back to booting at runlevel 5.
>
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